News and Events

Conference: Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018
Hillary Nunn and Melissa Schultheis examined the networks that Lady Anne Fanshawe’s recipe book preserves as well as builds, concentrating on both family members and ingredient. Their work kicked off a panel entitled “Net Work: Then and Now,” arranged by Christopher Warren and sponsored by the LLC 17th-Century English.

Conference: Early Modern Manuscripts Online: New Directions in Teaching and Research, May 2017
Elaine Leong, Jennifer Munroe, and Hillary Nunn presented at this Folger-sponsored conference devoted to exploring the influence of digital scholarship on manuscript studies as well as the ways in which our understanding of the early modern humanities is changing as a result.

Workshop: Making Manuscripts Digital, University of Guelph, May 2017
During the four day DH@Guelph Summer Workshops, Hillary Nunn and Amy Tigner offered an introduction to manuscript recipe books and led participants in transcribing and encoding an eighteenth-century recipe collection from the University of Guelph’s Una Abrahamson Canadian Cookery Collection.

Conference: Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, April 2017
Hillary Nunn and Amy Tigner represented EMROC at the conference’s Digital Exhibits, and EMROC members convened a vetting marathon before the conference’s official start.

Conference: Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, April 2017

In “The Phenomenology of Digital Transcription,” EMROC Member Margaret Simon reflected on pedagogical uses of EMROC texts and Dromio in the classroom. Hillary Nunn’s paper, “Considering Water in Five Recipe Manuscripts,” made use of the new search capabilities that EMROC transcriptions to examine the peculiarities associated with “plain” water in the early modern household. EMROC member Member Marissa Nicosia (Penn State Abington) and Transcriber Katie Walker (University of North Carolina) presented on their work with early modern recipes as well.

Phyllis Rackin Lecture, University of Pennsylvania

Rebecca Laroche gave a talk, “Tending the Fire: Shakespeare, Women, and Ecofeminism,” part of which expanded on research on language around fires, made possible through the transcribathon earlier in the month, November 30, 2016.

Conference: Manuscript Cookbooks, Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University, May 2016

Jennifer Munroe and Hillary Nunn, along with Heather Wolfe of the Folger Shakespeare Library, present on the topic, Digital Humanities: The Dromio Project and EMROC. Video available at https://vimeopro.com/nyutv/fales-food/video/182614143

Conference: Renaissance Society of America, Boston, April 2016
EMROC participated in a roundtable showcasing the collaborations and conversations that comprise the ecosystem of the Folger Library’s recent digital initiatives. Panelists discussed how the conversations that emerge around early modern digital work foster advanced research goals and shape the kinds of questions that are asked. Issues discussed included shared infrastructure and its development, as well as sustainability. Representatives from JSTOR/Ithaka, Digital Renaissance Editions, the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective, and others presented.

Conference: Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans, March 2016
Hillary Nunn and Jennifer Munroe talked with conference-goers about the project’s principles and pedagogical uses.

Conference: Modern Language Association, Austin Texas, January 2016EMROC was part of a a roundtable discussion on “The Myth of Post-canonicity: Early Modern Women Writers.” Rebecca Laroche talked about the implications of the “digital turn” and the example of EMROC.

Media: The BBC films at our October 2015 Transcribathon
As transcribers around the world made their way through the Winche manuscript, the BBC filed this report on how the recipes work in today’s kitchens: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35011121

Hillary Nunn, “Using the Methods of our Manuscripts: Shaping the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective”

Lecture: 2015 George Washington University, January 2015.Rebecca Laroche was invited to present on the Collective’s mission: “What Recipes Can Tell Us: Collaboration, Close Reading, and Macro-Analysis.”

Conference: Pride and Prejudices: Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century, July 2013
At the Chawton House Library, Rebecca Laroche presented “Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC)” as part of a panel entitled New Directions in Digital Humanities I: Creators and Users.

Exhibit: Beyond Home Remedy: Women, Medicine, and Science, January-May 2011
This exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library, curated by Rebecca Laroche and Georgianna Ziegler, explored women’s roles in early modern medicine through the records they left in recipe books, their ownership marks in books by male authorities, and other evidences of their labors as caregivers and healers. For more details, click here.